What Character From A Broadway Show Do You Most Relate To?

I know we have a thread about what song best describes you, so what character do you see yourself most in? (Wow, my grammar is terrible. All these prepositions ending sentences...)

I'd have to say Sir Percy Blakeney from "The Scarlet Pimpernel" for me. I'm a ridiculous goofball with over-the-top fashion sense and some... eccentric mannerisms, but I also think I'm at least a smidge more intelligent than I generally let on.

Also, for some bizarre reason, people are always saying I remind them of Mary Poppins.

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j. pierrepont finch, in life and in business

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Clara from 'The Light in the Piazza'. But I'm naturally immature, no pony-kickings here.

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Kate Monster. Just older and real.

Updated On: 11/10/08 at 02:09 PM

Eponine 110% : (

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Mortiz from Spring Awakening. Im 19 howver, when I was around the age of the character I had many of the same actions and thoughts as him. I was not a happy person back then. I was confused about life, unhappy with my home and love life and contemplated ending it all. though i actually kind of think many people go through a suicidal phase now that im older and wiser back then i felt like i was alone in the world. When I first hear this music I instantly connected to the music for many reasons. The score was fun and really rocking and just I always enjoyed it. Then when I really listened to the lyrics and hear the characters and I first heard Touch Me, Then There Were None and Dont Do sadness it reminded me of who I used to be. This is why the piece means so much to me, why I love it so much and why I hate to see it leave.

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I think any girl who's ever fallen utterly and hopelessly for a guy she cannot be with has a little Eponine in her. When we project ourselves onto characters, we go with what's accessible. None of us have been part of the student uprising of 1832, I hope none of us have been sold into prostitution by our fathers or lived on the streets of Paris. But when girls who have lost their hearts so painlessly to someone so inaccessible, it's very hard not to latch onto the girl who is displaying the emotions we have felt right there on the stage for everyone to see.

I can't tell you how much I wish I didn't have a little Eponine in me.

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I'm a little embarassed to say that, at the time anyway, I really, really identified with Moritz from SA. I guess he's a pretty universal figure, but a year ago, I identified with him very, very strongly.

Someone said Dot from Sunday earlier... I totally identify with Dot as well. For many reasons, one being having horrible concentration, and being in very similar relationship. The show has taught me a lot about myself actually.

Lately I've been really getting into Follies.... It's so weird, one day I totally identify with Phyllis and other days with Sally.

and Schmerg- It's so funny to hear someone who prefers Cosette. I was in a production of Les Mis recently, and the cast was always talking about how annoying Cosette is (for essentially taking Marius from poor Eponine, showing a lack of strong emotions besides being blindly love, etc) though I suppose it's not really her fault. I can see where you're coming from though.

Why would we hate you just because you're green, badly dressed, and have a scarecrow boyfriend? We're much more enlightened than that nowadays.

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Bobby from Company.

Cathy from The Last 5 Years. Everytime I listen to Climbing Uphill I'm reminded of myself and what I've thought at every single audition I've ever gone too. Since I'm only 17, I don't know much about the whole failed relationship thing, but every other aspect of Cathy that you get from listening to the recording, and even some between-the-lines stuff I've picked up myself remind me of myself.

Also, there's some Elphaba in me...the outsider who always has someone around to one-up her or overshadow her, who doesn't so much show that she cares about being different, but longs to fit in deep down.

And a bit of Mimi Marquez...her live life to the fullest attitude, and don't hold back.

Mix them together, and I think you get a good dose of me. :)

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Julie Jordan in Carousel


I married a man that was pretty unstable. Having a Florence Nightengale complex I thought I could help him. He committed suicide three months before our son was born. I went through some very challenging times back then.

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Updated On: 11/12/08 at 08:28 PM